Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and The Athletic’s Sam Amick react to free agent Paul George agreeing to a new max 4-year contract with the 76ers. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” – part of the “Ball Don’t Lie” podcast – and subscribe on , or wherever you listen.
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The biggest movement happened overnight, Paul George leaving the L A Clippers to sign a four year $212 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers.
Does this feel like the perfect fit for a 76ers team that is trying to chase the Boston Celtics trying to get over the hump of getting out of the second round.
They haven’t gotten out of the second round since 2001 with Allen Iverson and that group.
This just feels like stylistically as Paul George is either the second or third best player with Maxi and Joel and be like, how do you see the fit?
I do like it a lot.
I did highlight Darryl Morey in my column because after this year where he and James Harden had this debacle between them, the optics were bad for both sides.
Um Darryl found himself, you know, he’s pretty quiet at the February trade deadline in terms of the assets they got in the Harden deal with the Clippers kind of keeps the powder dry at that point which surprised some people and then the whole entire time there was some chatter that he had his eyes on somebody in particular now to be clear, I do not have total clarity on if Paul George was that guy the entire time.
But I do find it interesting because he waited, waited, waited, hits the summertime and you talk about high stakes if any, like Darryl found himself in an all or nothing game, in my opinion, like the plan B, if they did not get Paul George, like, I don’t know what it was and I honestly think not, not to be hyperbolic, but man, if they don’t get Paul George, you know, we saw, they went 11 and 20 without Joel Midea.
When we saw that as great as Tyrese Max.
He is as a young talent, you know, he, he needs help.
Can’t carry a team by himself.
Uh That’s a long winded way of saying, yeah, I think Paul is a great fit.
Certainly you can kind of raise, you know, kind of eyebrows and question marks around the idea that when he’s 38 years old, they’re gonna be paying him a ton of money.
That’s what the Clippers didn’t want to do.
Um But the other like kind of mafioso part of this to me is for Darryl to say goodbye to James Harden, who pushed his way out and then fill the vacancy by ruining the Clippers plan to keep those three guys together is uh is pretty wild.
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